As many of you will have already read in other threads, I've been thinking a lot about making a career change and looking into gaining further qualifications.
I've come up with teaching as an idea but must admit that after a lot of thought I'm not sure if I do want to do this after all - I'm worried that it's actually too close to what I'm doing now and that what I really need is a complete change of direction.
I've been having a look through 'jobcentreplus' to see what sort of jobs are out there at the moment and have come up empty handed! I'm struggling to think of what else I would like to do!
I'm still keen to do an Art related degree, but to do this even part time I would need to be available for 2 days a week, so it would mean combing it with a job and potentially reducing the hours I can work.
I'm still interested in working with animals - some of you may remember I applied for a kennel assistant job at a local rescue centre towards the end of last year. I lost out to that (only just though!) to someone who had the experience (which I didn't) but it's still something I would like to try. Problem is that jobs in that area are few and far between.
I've just contacted the centre and volunteered myself to do some dog walking this week, as I'm currently off work. I'm hoping it might give me a better insight.
To be honest I feel really trapped - I'm in a job I hate and have a house with a big mortgage that we can't afford to pay if I earn less money. I've been wondering today about finding out about changing our mortgage to interest only, to reduce the payments and give me a better chance of changing jobs and studying? I don't really know much about hoe this works though?
So, my thoughts are: reduce my mortgage, to enable me to change jobs. I'm still not clear as to quite how I go about this though and where to start?
Sorry to ramble!!! I need some advice though!
I've come up with teaching as an idea but must admit that after a lot of thought I'm not sure if I do want to do this after all - I'm worried that it's actually too close to what I'm doing now and that what I really need is a complete change of direction.
I've been having a look through 'jobcentreplus' to see what sort of jobs are out there at the moment and have come up empty handed! I'm struggling to think of what else I would like to do!
I'm still keen to do an Art related degree, but to do this even part time I would need to be available for 2 days a week, so it would mean combing it with a job and potentially reducing the hours I can work.
I'm still interested in working with animals - some of you may remember I applied for a kennel assistant job at a local rescue centre towards the end of last year. I lost out to that (only just though!) to someone who had the experience (which I didn't) but it's still something I would like to try. Problem is that jobs in that area are few and far between.
I've just contacted the centre and volunteered myself to do some dog walking this week, as I'm currently off work. I'm hoping it might give me a better insight.
To be honest I feel really trapped - I'm in a job I hate and have a house with a big mortgage that we can't afford to pay if I earn less money. I've been wondering today about finding out about changing our mortgage to interest only, to reduce the payments and give me a better chance of changing jobs and studying? I don't really know much about hoe this works though?
So, my thoughts are: reduce my mortgage, to enable me to change jobs. I'm still not clear as to quite how I go about this though and where to start?
Sorry to ramble!!! I need some advice though!
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